Sunday 26 May, 8.30 pm, the screening of The Damned (2024) by Roberto Minervini is accompanied by a conversation between the director and critic Alessandro Stellino.
After the Texan trilogy (The Passage, 2011, Low Tide, 2012, and Stop the Pounding Heart, 2013), Louisiana (The Other Side) (2015) and What you Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018), Roberto Minervini proceeds to explore new codes poised between documentary and fiction. Filmed in Montana, The Damned recounts in a profoundly lyrical dimension the parable of a group of men confronting the everyday life of war and the difficulties of a hostile territory.
BIOGRAPHY
Director and screenwriter, Roberto Minervini was born in Fermo in 1970. After moving to the United States and earning his Master’s degree in Media Studies at the New School University of New York in 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short films Voodoo Doll (2005), Come to Daddy (2005), Notes (2005) and The Fireflies (2006). In 2011 he wrote and directed his first feature film, The passage. This was followed by Low Tide (2012), Stop the Pounding Heart, screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Louisiana (The Other Side), in competition in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and What you Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018). His latest film The Damned is presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival 2024.